Victoria Pynt Original Artwork

Victoria works as a full-time artist from her studio in Canberra. She draws inspiration especially from her lifelong connection with Australia’s dry woodlands, and the contrasts of vibrant colours in our birds and wildflowers set against the muted, earthy tones of the Australian bush palette.

Her process involves building partly-imagined worlds through gentle layers of organic marks, often made with water, rags and various tools that allow her to step back from the process and allow nature to speak spontaneously through her. 

Paint is added or removed, building until this tangle of forest understorey is formed enough to hold the viewer. Final flecks of colour are allowed to skip across the surface like sunlight on leaf, web or tiny wing.

After more than 20 years of practice including 5 solo shows and exhibiting ad-hoc in galleries across the ACT, NSW and Tasmania, Victoria’s journey to full-time artist accelerated when her husband began his own journey with a life-threatening cancer. His is a miracle story, but the experience taught Victoria to live with uncertainty, embracing the present as the only reality. Art was her path back to the heart from the thinking-space of coping, becoming integral to Victoria’s new way of being in the world.

Victoria is also a novelist and editor, with a former career in communications and adult education. You may have known her as Vicki Collins.